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All that thus proceeds from the supernal combines into a
unity and every existing entity takes something from this blended
infusion so that the result is the thing itself plus some
quality. The effluence does not make the horse but adds something
to it; for horse comes by horse, and man by man: the sun plays
its part no doubt in the shaping, but the man has his origin in
the Human-Principle. Outer things have their effect, sometimes to
hurt and sometimes to help; like a father, they often contribute
to good but sometimes also to harm; but they do not wrench the
human being from the foundations of its nature; though sometimes
Matter is the dominant, and the human principle takes the second
place so that there is a failure to achieve perfection; the Ideal
has been attenuated.
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